Posted on 06/07/2014 8:44:33 AM PDT by Bratch
An heirloom bronze elephant with ivory tusks, great-grandmother's piano with ivory keys, a vintage ivory chess set or an antique silver teapot with a small ivory inset in the handle to keep it cool may be "endangered" by proposed laws that could be in place sometime in June. Buying, selling or importing ivory from recently killed African elephants already is illegal and has been for about 25 years.
But an executive order issued by President Barack Obama would extend the ban to include all antique ivory harvested from elephants that died before 1914. There would be a law forbidding sales, even gifts to museums, of any ivory, including antique pieces. This affects antiques dealers and collectors, knife makers and collectors, Inuit craftsmen, owners of mahjong and chess sets, and manufacturers of musical instruments, including guitars and violins — the list could go on. And those in favor of strong endangered species laws want to also insist that all confiscated antique carved ivory art be destroyed — not even given to a museum.
Already thousands of pounds of ivory art objects have been destroyed. This will cause huge losses to companies, collectors and museums. Express your opinion in this controversy.
There's still time to contact your U.S. senator, representative or the Fish & Wildlife Service to make your thoughts known. For links to more detailed information, go to www.kovels.com/latest-news/new-ivory-ban.html.
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Obama is a fascist!
I agree, and capitalism would do this best: You could even turn the poachers into protectors by allowing them to OWN herds, and then educate them that the more elephants alive, the more that will reproduce. Then if you over time allow for elephants to die out natually, the ivory could be collected.
I guess you must have missed that episode.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewey,_Cheatem_%26_Howe
http://www.123posters.com/stooges7.htm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVdUU6S87dk
Didn't really "miss" it...it's just that the old brain cells are dying off! ;-)
I hear you, Bro!
Mine are like lemmings running to the shore lately!
You’re right: 4 Hungadungas & a McCormick.
Keys on my Wife’s antebellum piano are ivory.
FUBO...
Capt. Spaulding: Now read me the letter, Jamison.
Horatio Jamison: [reading] “Honorable Charles H. Hungadunga...”
Capt. Spaulding: [correcting him] Hungerdunger.
[they say the “hung” syllable in unison]
Capt. Spaulding: Hoong.
Horatio Jamison: Hungerdunger.
Capt. Spaulding: That’s it, Hungerdunger.
Horatio Jamison: [continues reading] “... care of Hungerdunger, Hungerdunger, Hungerdunger, and McCormick.”
Capt. Spaulding: You’ve left out a Hungerdunger. You left out the main one, too. Thought you could slip one over on me, didn’t you, eh?
Constitution - you know, the document that is being ignored.
But then you know that so I would guess you were trying to be funny. Ha!
See, I laughed at your little joke.
Good God Almighty....it wasn't a joke,it was sarcasm.Big difference! And it wasn't sarcasm directed at you but directed at our Community Organizer-In-Chief and his co-conspirators.Sarcasm isn't meant to make anyone laugh.
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